Sentences with phrase «twist of the knife»

The easiest way to cut an avocado is to slice the long way around the pit, twist and pull the two side open, and remove the pit by one smooth chop and one twist of the knife.

A chamber piece that perfectly orchestrates stellar character work, razor - wire tension and some shocking twists and turns, 10 Cloverfield Lane reinvents the modern thriller with a dark, science - fiction - friendly twist of the knife.

Every time I found myself getting bored, the game would throw another twist of the knife my way that made some little part of me want to find out the next portion.

In what has become a slow twist of the knife for publishing powerhouse Activision, a further eight developers have left Modern Warfare 2 studio Infinity Ward.

That it then proceeds to take a long hot piss all over the established series chronology, just to set up a predictable and pointless cameo, is a twist of the knife too far.

And soon after, in a crippling twist of the knife, the warmongering bastards kicked off a third conflict, this time against Gwaul's home kingdom.

Not exact matches

I apologize for my Irish coming out but that was 6 years in the making and there is nothing I loathe more than a fraud parading under the banner of «all peace love and kindness» while twisting the knife in someone's back... Doug's been very busy today private messaging people on this thread doing damage control....

The twisting of biblical truth as a knife to my soul is drawn to much blood.

For «a sinner» does not signify that there is something bad in him, as a splendid apple may have a little bad speck that can be removed with a twist of the paring knife, so that you can scarcely see that anything has been cut out.

They put a knife into the thick side of the chicken, twisted the knife around to make a pocket, and then piped in the stuffing ingredients into the chicken.

Run a thin knife around edge of pan and twist pan gently back and forth on a flat surface to loosen cake.

Basically, you cut a thin slice of orange, use a sharp knife and cut out the middle, cut on part of the circle, then twist into a spiral and hold it for 30 seconds.

You can easily remove the pit with a quick strike and a twist with the heel of your knife.

She rated it as an 11 on a pain scale in which 10 is the most painful and said, «there are thousands of knives digging into my leg and twisting while it is on fire.»

I will preface this following statement with the knowledge that it may well be twisting the knife for quite a few of you.

I'd tell Mike to move on with his life, and twist that knife sticking out of Luke's chest for all it's worth, just to be a dick and laugh at Rockhold.

The herculean effort of moving my body even one tiny inch was rewarded by an invisible gremlin twisting a steak knife even deeper into my back.

11:14 - Murdoch twists the knife into Myler, saying that if he knew of wider spread criminality «he should have told me».

The first edition of the London Evening Standard published under the editorship of ex-chancellor George Osborne was headlined «Brussels twists knife on Brexit», with an editorial warning the PM against seeking a «blank cheque» from the EU.

Gov. Cuomo twisted the political knife a little deeper with his non-endorsement of Mayor de Blasio by backing Laura Curran in the Democratic primary for Nassau County executive.

Astorino, who is polling nearly 40 points behind Cuomo, twisted the knife, suggesting that the two governors — who together help run the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey — might be protecting one another over Bridgegate.

If Britain does remain in the EU, Labour's divisions will be exposed once again over the summer: the Conservatives will twist the knife over the Chilcot report on the Iraq war, due to be published early next month, and the future of the Trident nuclear weapons system, on which the government has said it will call a vote soon.

Serrated bread knife: A right - handed knife often has serrations on the left edge of the blade to correct for the hand's natural twisting action.

Often when I come home from running, I slice an avocado in half, twist it and take out the pit, then dice the flesh in the shell with a sharp knife, making it easy to scoop it out of the shell with a spoon.

Haneke's 1997 film is notorious for delivering one of the most painful viewing experiences in contemporary cinema; setting up a standard thriller scenario before breaking the rules, and twisting the emotional knife at every opportunity.

But the most sadistic moment, purely in terms of twisting the knife in the viewer's sensibility, is the shot of a young boy standing in the doorway to the barn, looking in, the soft animal toy he's holding silhouetted in the light from behind.

In the book, Jack goes into the bathroom and haltingly stabs the boy to death: «I finally grab his hair and pull his head back with it and he's crying, still arching his back up, trying to twist free, bleeding all over the tub from shallow wounds, and Mary is screaming in the living room and I ram the knife deep into his throat, hacking it open, and his eyes go wide with realization and a huge geyser of hot blood hits me in the face.»

Spring, like Resolution, twists the knife slowly, and the cerebral as well as emotional payoff is one of the best all year.

He forces his ever - so - slightly warped idea of friendship on Steven and, when his attentions are inevitably spurned, begins to twist the knife.

A rare Hollywood film that deals with both the violence and the turmoil and the regret these men face when they slow to catch their breath, it's searing for most the emotional ride, with some genuinely chilling moments of impulsive human malevolence and a morally ambiguous climax that twists the knife of poetic justice.

It may not be easy viewing and it can be emotionally manipulative — the knife - twisting in the final act really proved a bridge too far for me — but Oceans is a film with tons of heart.

All of the twist that maxes out at 1,500 rpm is almost diesel - like, and it's particularly helpful when charging into traffic or dealing with the knife fight that is rush hour.

And as if to twist the knife, Kia has already stated the all - new, rear - drive four - door sedan is set to be launched in Australia around the same time we say goodbye to production of the last local rear drive hero car later this year (October 2017).

You won't find exotic weaponry or computer hardware here; characters are dispatched with knives and the quick twist of a head, and information is gathered through interviews and keen deduction instead of via an Internet search.

With a careful hand, a steady knife, and a piece of bone, a surgeon could reconstruct a man's nose with a twisted portion of his own forehead.

Twist the knife to force the two shells apart, then run it around the inside of the top part of the shell to allow you to remove the lid.

And what a way for Apple to twist the knife if it were to bolster its position in the enterprise email market, considering already the grip the iPhone and iPad has on business productivity, if it could take on its arch rivals of Google and Microsoft?

The bane of single - player games is also a problem, with uninterruptable animations that force you to watch your avatar twist a knife in someone's back for an aggravating half of a second more than it should take for a professional to do it, unable to move out of the way of an incoming blow no matter how hard you press those buttons.

Fusing together form, process and perception, her stages take the same gradual curves and twists of the brush, the knife, and the sewing machine, and extend it out into physical space, both introducing a similar meandering pathway to the viewer's experience of the works, and simultaneously drawing a connection to the weeds» presence «below,» the idea that the ground we walk on is extended over that of natural earth.

Twisting the knife a bit, he writes, «Bitcoin Cash is a meta - organization composed of many different development teams.

• Trim the stems of whole portobellos before cooking either by cutting with a paring knife, or grabbing the stem and twisting it off.